Bernini
makes me cry,
but it’s not his
personal history
of course,
his anger,
his desire to murder
his brother,
his orders to slash Costanza’s face.
But it is his Daphne,
pursued by Apollo, [Read more…]
Deportation and Incarceration
Battling the Death Penalty with James Baldwin
If you’re thirsting to understand our increasingly cold, jaundiced, at times carcinogenic society, James Baldwin’s singular insight about America and his dizzying, divine command of the English language are as refreshing as an icy elixir on the hottest day in hell.
Moreover, for death penalty abolitionists, Baldwin’s writing is particularly poignant in the wake of:
- The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty, and, “wipe the stain of capital punishment clean” (In the aftermath, Reuter’s Andrew Chung soberly observed that “[t]he Supreme Court has not seriously debated the constitutionality of the death penalty since the 1970s”);
- The Trump administration’s doubling down on a harebrained, ass-backward plan to put drug dealers to death;
Eleven year-old student Naomi Wadler speaks at March For Our Lives Rally | Video Worth Watching
Eleven year-old student Naomi Wadler speaks at March For Our Lives Rally. “I’m here today to honor the words of Toni Morrison: ‘If there’s a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.’ ” [Read more…]
D.C. choir sings with Jennifer Hudson, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ at March For Our Lives Rally | Video Worth Watching
Jennifer Hudson, accompanied by the D.C. Choir, shapes a new vision of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A Changin’.
And sometimes silence speaks louder than words. Emma Gonzalez uses a calculated silence to make a powerful statement in her address to the March For Our Lives assembly. [Read more…]
Marching for Our Lives in San Diego & Other Places | Photo Gallery
Initial estimates say 10,000 people participated in the March for Our Lives rally at the County Administration Building on the waterfront in San Diego on Saturday morning. Locally, there were also marches in Escondido, Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Temecula.
There were over 830 March for Our Lives events on six continents. In Washington, DC, 800,000 people marched. In New York City, 175,000 people marched. Twenty thousand people took to the streets in Boston.
Today’s post is mostly pictures from around the world, with a few snippets from news coverage I saw. [Read more…]
Music to Inspire a March For Our Lives Movement | Video Worth Watching
Here’s some insight into why young people are massing today in Washington, D.C. as well as 835 other locations around the U.S. The survivors of the Parkland, Florida, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School: “We’re tired of hearing that we’re too young to ever make a change.” … “We’re not gonna let you win. We’re putting up a fight.” … “Stand up for one another and we’ll never give up the fight.”
And they are not marching alone. There will be battle-tested veterans marching with them. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Final Account
The dead don’t lie
they aren’t sleeping
never passed away
crossed over
departed
nor do they rest in peace [Read more…]
NRA, Your Time Is Running Out | Video Worth Watching
Heading into the weekend and this Saturday’s March For Our Lives, here’s a glimpse of how the this generation is turning the tables on the NRA. They’re unabashedly able to take the NRA’s rhetoric (as delivered by one of it’s more histrionic spokespersons) and turn it back on itself. No fear! [Read more…]
Ending the NRA’s Reign of Terror in the US
As we head into the March for Our Lives weekend, a look at the organization largely responsible for our glut of guns is in order. When you drill down into the issues surrounding gun violence in the U.S., it’s impossible to escape the conclusion we would not be having this debate if it were not for the National Rifle Association.
It’s my contention people of our country are being held hostage by a small group of people financed by arms manufacturers.
Their approach to keeping us interned involves generating an ‘intense state of fear,’ which just happens to be the definition of terror in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Terrorism is therefore described as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. [Read more…]
Free Lyft Rides for March for Our Lives Attendees in San Diego, 49 Other Cities
On March 24, those around the country will join March for Our Lives demonstrations to demand that their lives and safety become a priority. This movement has been led by student organizers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which less than a month and a half ago was the site of one of the nation’s deadliest school massacres.
Earlier this month, Lyft Co-Founders John Zimmer and Logan Green shared their support for the civic engagement these students have inspired by offering free Lyft rides to marches around the country. [Read more…]
What to Do About All the Good Food Getting Trashed
By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos
Back in summer 2015, France’s Parliament voted to end food waste at grocery stores. After a judicial decision concerning the constitutionality of such a law, it went into effect at the beginning of 2016.
The law banned groceries from throwing away edible food—a practice the entire developed world partakes in. Under the law, not donating edible foods you are getting rid of can result in a $4,500 fine—every time.
As NPR reports, after more than a year in practice, the French law has not turned France into some totalitarian dystopia.
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